On 3/20/2025 12:56 PM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:

In article <vrhgib$3jgvs$1@dont-email.me>,
Cryptoengineer <petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:

On 3/20/2025 12:00 PM, Kevrob wrote:

When access to USENET via Google Groups content, other than
what has been archived, was cut off by Google last year, I
wondered if an alternative might emerge elsewhere.  Obviously,
I was able to switch to a newsreader, but if I ever could not
use one, there is now:

https://newsgrouper.org/

If one does not want to register and be able to post, you could
still use the site as a read-only tool.

That's very nice. I was hoping something like this would turn up.

However, I can't see how to register. Clicking the 'Register' button
takes me to a 'terms of use' page, with not indication of how to
register.

pt

I see this at the bottom of the Terms Of Use page:

Registration: Only registered users can post.
To request registration please send email to newsgrouper@yahoo.com.
Note that requests are processed manually so you may not get an immediate response.
Once you have received a password, please go to the Login Page.

That's right!

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On Mar 20, 2025, Kevrob wrote
(in article <vrhe23$3f6iu$2@dont-email.me>):

When access to USENET via Google Groups content, other than
what has been archived, was cut off by Google last year, I
wondered if an alternative might emerge elsewhere. Obviously,
I was able to switch to a newsreader, but if I ever could not
use one, there is now:

https://newsgrouper.org/

If one does not want to register and be able to post, you could
still use the site as a read-only tool.

But it is not accessible from UK-based IP addresses
due to the UK Online Safety Act, according to
Julian of alt.buddha.short.fat.guy ,

Two other sites are
https://novabbs.com and https://jlaforums.com ,
but they don’t carry all groups, but you could email
retroguy@novabbs.com and request that this
group be added.

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And the hill is shifting sand; And inside these laws we stand" (Ferron)

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William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com> writes:

Kevrob wrote:

When access to USENET via Google Groups content, other than
what has been archived, was cut off by Google last year, I
wondered if an alternative might emerge elsewhere.  Obviously,
I was able to switch to a newsreader, but if I ever could not
use one, there is now:
https://newsgrouper.org/
If one does not want to register and be able to post, you could
still use the site as a read-only tool.

I am an old guy who shakes his cane at computers (note to self, get a
cane). Nonetheless I was able to switch from google to
seamonkey/eternal September in about 15 minutes, without breaking a
single monitor.

Still, the more the merrier.

William Hyde

I have used news.individual.net since Monash University dropped their
news feed in about 2004. I mainly used gnus on emacs as my newsreader.
There used to be a list of free or low-cost news services somewhere on
the net. I don't have a browser on this old iBook G4 running Debian
(ports).


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On Thu, 20 Mar 2025 18:28:27 -0400, William Hyde
<wthyde1953@gmail.com> wrote:

I am an old guy who shakes his cane at computers (note to self, get a
cane). Nonetheless I was able to switch from google to
seamonkey/eternal September in about 15 minutes, without breaking a
single monitor.

Whereas my gift to myself when I finished my first degree was to
purchase an Apple // (early model //+) and purchased a 1200 baud dial
up modem two years later.

My children (now in their mid-30s) grew up with a dial-up modem and
early model programs like Microsoft Dogs (the coyote on that desk
drove our Corgi nuts!) around the time I got my first cable hookup.

Needless to say I've had plenty of computers since my Apple II and
cried the day I left that old box at the dump long after it was no
longer working and I had something spiffier and shinier after having
submitted most of my papers in grad school printed by a dot matrix
printer back before lasers and ink-jets were commonplace.

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